Thread: Goat Hunting close to Hamilton?

Bugger all goats in the Waitawheta end of the Kaimais now, @kiwi-adam. I know cos I live there. DOC cullers have been through twice in the last three years and cleaned out the rather disparate mob that had gradually moved north and west from the central part of the forest park. Last time they came through they did a letter drop as it was close to us, and I spent a fruitful period picking off the odd goat as they tried to get out of the DOC land across the river onto private land.

Whilst its not that busy now, in a few weeks it'll be heaving with tourists walking the tracks. The Waitawheta Hut is bookings only, and you'll see soon enough how busy it gets. Mate, hunters trying to share walking tracks with hordes of jaffa trampers is never a great idea. It's very hard to get off the tracks unless you're in the older forest with taller trees and less scrubby shite in the understory. The DOC rangers are thick as with all the track improvements they're doing, and the main bloke who's from the Thames office is rabid anti-hunting in that part of the park. They are wanting to clean out the deer (there's a few runty ones around in the NE) and change the status of the northern part of the park to no hunting, due to the tourist numbers.

Seriously mate, you're much better off to go chasing deer and goats in the central and southern part of the park. And no I'm not just trying to put others off. I don't hunt in there at all these days.